Senators rally late, down Flames in OT, 4-3

In Ottawa, the Senators rallied from a 3-1 deficit to the Calgary Flames in the third period to force extra time on Monday.

Tim Stutzle scored the game-winner at 1:55 of the extra session to give the Senators a 4-3 win over the Flames.

“Not great, to be honest,” Stutzle said. “A lot of pucks bobbling in the slot and on the power play, too. We had some good looks, but then the puck bobbled last-second every time we wanted to shoot. But in the end, we tried to figure it out. I got really mad there a couple of times, but in the end, we figured it out.”

Mads Sogaard made 34 saves for the Ottawa win.

“He looked really calm,” Senators coach D.J. Smith said of Sogaard. “I mean, he’s big, obviously. Pucks hit him and he made the saves he had to make. They had plenty of chances and he looked good and obviously made a couple big saves in overtime.”

Ottawa improved to 25-24-3.

With the Flames leading, 3-1, Ottawa trimmed the lead to 3-2 at 17:46 of the third period on a marker from Drake Batherson, the goal came with an extra skater for the Senators.

“There’s four, five minutes left and you see a few people leaving,” Batherson said, “and before you know it, it’s tied up. It’s awesome. We haven’t scored many 6-on-5 goals since I’ve been here, and the place went nuts, so it was great to get the win.”

Alex DeBrincat tied the game, 3-3, at 18:32 with the Senators net empty.

“I was really confident in him,” Stutzle said of Sogaard. “I knew it, right before the game. He’s a great goalie, a big guy, and an awesome guy. I’m really, really happy for him to get his first home win here. I couldn’t be more excited to see him play the way he played.”

After Brady Tkachuk gave the Senators a 1-0 lead in the first period, Calgary’s Dillon Dube scored the first of his two goals on the night, off the power play, at 14:47.

“I thought we played a hell of a game,” Calgary coach Darryl Sutter said. “We ran out of gas a little bit. When we went down to four [defensemen] there the last three or four minutes, I thought we ran out of gas. I thought we played really well.”

Calgary dropped to 25-18-11.

“It’s tough,” Calgary forward Mikael Backlund said. “We played a really good game for 56 minutes, 57 minutes or so, and then we let it get out of our hands.”

Tyler Toffoli put the Flames ahead, 2-1, in the middle frame.

“We had chances throughout the entire game to essentially put them away, and we didn’t,” Toffoli said. “We let them hang around. They’re a team with a lot of skill and can do what they did.”

Dube hit for his second of the game in the seventh minute of the third period for the 3-1 lead, before the Senators rallied.